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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I wouldn't have thought that the bags cost so much. They're not that big. How much did the Cheetos inside them cost?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Assuming the guy is 6 ft, those bags look roughly to be 2m X 1m X 1m, using that and a bit of chatGPT to do the maths because I'm lazy, we're looking at roughly 2,500 large bags of Cheetos per clear bag

    Which I'm guessing is only if the cheetos are packed perfectly at maximum density

    But even if we half it and for every cheeto, there's an equivalent amount of volume as space, then we're still looking at a lot of bags, this is a bargain at approximately 5¢ per equivalent large bag

    The maths it did in python apparently:

    import math
    
    # Dimensions of a Cheeto
    length = 0.05  # in meters
    diameter = 0.01  # in meters
    radius = diameter / 2  # Radius is half the diameter
    
    # Volume of a cylinder V = πr^2h
    volume = math.pi * (radius ** 2) * length
    # volume = 3.93x10^-6
    
    # Volume of the bag
    volume_of_bag = 2  # in cubic meters (2m x 1m x 1m)
    
    # Number of Cheetos that fit in the bag
    number_of_cheetos = volume_of_bag / volume
    # number_of_cheetos = 509,296
    
    # Number of Cheetos per large bag
    cheetos_per_bag = 200
    
    # Number of bags needed
    number_of_bags = number_of_cheetos / cheetos_per_bag
    # number_of_bags = 2,546
    
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The Cheetos in the bags cost that much, not the bags themselves.

    How did you infer the plastic bags themselves cost the entire price?

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